Hint: War Fan:When you complete a path you must get compared to ChenGong, Lu Bu's strategist. The old man will then give you the WarFan. This is a permanent item that has a +3 INT officer growtheffect, and is useful for quickly raising your strategist's INT.

Hint: Easy items:When you complete the game you may receive a permanentunlockable item if you are compared to somebody good by the oldman. If you save the battle just before you kill the last personin the final battle then continuously complete the game and resumingthe battle, the old man will keep giving you new items and yourcraft will also increase. After awhile he will no longer giveyou any more items. However, your craft will continue to increaseso you could start a game with as much as 15,000 craft, if yourepeat it enough times.

Hint: Special Tactics:Whenever you have two or more people that are friendsin an army, they will do special tactics together if you set themup correctly (such as a Double Blade, Family Bond, and TripleStrike). Others will have tactics that will do other things. Forexample, if you have Sun Ce and Sun Quan together in a tacticcombo, they will do the tactic Conqueror. If you have Lu LingQi and Lu Bu together, you will do the special tactic Warrior'sBlood. Note: Conqueror and Warrior's Blood can only be used oncein a battle.

Hint: Getting Shu forces as Wu early:You have two options to do this. Attack Cao Cao whilehe is at war with Yuan Shao. The other way is to Attack Liu Biaoto avenge Sun Jian (recommneded). You will then do the "TheFirst Battle For Jing" chapter. This chapter will not lastlong and you will get Gan Ning. Then, Cao Cao will send forcesto He Fei, and that is the next chapter "Surrounded At HeFei". If you use a good Army (Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Shang Xiang,Cheng Pu, Zhou Yu, Huang Gai and perhaps Zhou Tai). You can easilyrout his forces. Then, you will get the next chapter, "TheSecond Battle For Jing". As you know, in the last chapterLiu Bei was destroyed and left to Liu Biao. He does not do muchyet. Just take Jiang Ling for Liu Biao to run to Xiang Yang. Thisis the next chapter, "Assault On Di". Take Mount Xing,defeat then to get Ma Chao make a campaign north to the territoriesof Ma Teng. Conquer them and use the army with the Shu forcesled by Pang Tong which includes Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhliu Bei,and flood Xiang Yang. You are now on the chapter "The NightBefore". Use Gan Ning to begin recruiting forces from LiuBiao. Try to get Xiang Lang because he can recruit Ma Liang, MaSu, and Xu Shu. Then, defeat Liu Bei's forces and you will goon to the next chapter, "A Plan To Raid". Defeat CaoCao's forces. Then the final chapter-"Wei vs. Wu" begins.You have 40 turns to recruit Shu's forces. They are at the cityof Jiang Zhou. You should be able to get Zhuge Liang and PangTong. Then on the next turn, make either a army with the bothof them or as spies go back there and slowly recruit the Shu forces.You will get most of the main ones (Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun,and men like Guan Suo, Guan Xing, Guan Ping, Zhang Bao, and mostof the officers from former Liu Zhang, Ang Fei, Zhao Yun, GuanSuo, Pang Tong, and Zhang Bao. After the elimination of Ma Teng'sforces, Ma Chao should immediately join you, and possibly Ma Dai.If not, set him in the army of Pang Tong and you should get someof Ma Teng's officers. To get Wei Yan and Huang Zhong, defeatHan Xuan and use the Pang Tong army again, because they will immediatelyjoin you. If desired (just for conquering the land), defeat ZhangLu. Take over Chang An, Luo Yang, Xu Chang for the road to Yeto be open. By now you should have all of China except for theregion of He Bei, which includes Ye, Bo Hai, Ping Yuan, Jin Yang,Jen Ding, Yan, and Bei Ping. Take over Ye and watch the FMV sequence.